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Figures 16, 17. — Localities: 16 (left), Agrothereutes abbuviaior rufopectus; 17 (right), A. 



a. iridescens. 



5d. Agrothereutes abbreviator iridescens (Cresson), new status 



Cryptus iridescens Cresson, 1864, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, vol. 3, p. 296; cT. 



Type: cf, Delaware (Philadelphia). 

 Cryptus soror Cresson, 1864, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, vol. 3, p. 296; cf. 



Name preoccupied by Trentepohl, 1829. Type: cf, Delaware (Philadelphia). 

 Cryptus alhonotatus Provancher, 1886, Additions et corrections au volume ii de 



la faune entomologique du Canada traitant des hym^nopteres, p. 75; cf . 



Type: cf, Ottawa, Ont. (Ottawa). 

 Spilocryptus propodeum Cushman, 1920, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, p. 253; 



cf. Type: cf, North East, Pa. (Washington), 



Second tergite of female strongly mat, with moderately long, sparse, 

 evenly distributed hairs, the hair sockets separated by about 1.8 the 

 length of the hairs. Only long wnged females are known, 



Male: Black. Frontal orbit usually with a short white stripe; fa- 

 cial orbit often narrowly white; sometimes a white mark on cheek; 

 clypeus white, fulvous, ferruginous, or black; mandible entirely white 

 to entirely black; palpi white, their apices pale brown; scape entirely 

 fulvous or fulvous only in front; tegula white; usually the collar, hind 

 corner of pronotum, subtegular ridge, apical part of scutellum, and 

 postscutellum, white; often a pair of whitish areas just below the pro- 

 podeal crests; rarely the lower and upper edges of pronotum, all of 

 scutellum, upper division of metapleurum, restricted areas on meso- 

 pleurum and mesosternum, and all of propodeum beyond the apical 

 carina, white; front and middle coxae entirely fulvous or more or less 

 white; hind coxa fulvous, sometimes infuscate basally; front and 

 middle trochanters white, usually with some fulvous areas; hind first 

 trochanter fulvous, often weakly infuscate; hind second trochanter 

 fulvous and whitish; femora fulvous, the apical 0.2 ± of hind femur 

 infuscate; front and middle tibiae pale fulvous, the base of middle 



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